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THE J.A.P. CHRONICLES

from Doubleday

Sex and the City meets Jane Austen in a wickedly funny, razor-sharp novel about the fortunes and misfortunes, expectations and regrets of seven women who shared long-ago summers at an elite Jewish girl's camp.

Anyone who's ever wondered what happened to the girls in the exclusive cliques of adolescence will delight in THE J.A.P. CHRONICLES. With the wry wit and keen eye and ear of a latter-day Jane Austen, Isabel Rose (herself a scion of a prominent New York family) provides the ultimate insider's look at the glamorous upper-crust society that even Carrie Bradshaw would give her Jimmy Choos to join.

When seven former bunkmates at Willow Lake Camp reunite for the camp's 100th anniversary, the event brings more than just a revival of the old camp spirit. Ali Cohen, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker and former camp outcast, plans to make a documentary about her former bunkmates. The ugly duckling turned successful self-made swan secretly hopes that that her teenage tormentors will have grown into adult losers.

As each woman steps into focus, however, it becomes clear that it is not quite that simple. Sure, Arden can't keep a job (even as a nanny!), Jessica is stuck in regional theater, and Dafna has lost both her job and her $20,000 per month stipend from her father. But Laura is apparently flourishing as a Los Angeles super-agent, and Beth has found happiness by throwing over her dull but successful fiancé for her wedding photographer. Even Wendy, golden girl turned Short Hills housewife, has managed to skirt around old regrets and long-stifled urges-until seeing an old acquaintance stirs them up again.

Funny, smart, and ultimately moving, THE J.A.P. CHRONICLES opens a whole new perspective on the girls from the “best families” and on the money, culture, and expectations that define their lives.

What They're Saying

“Offers a fun peek inside hoity-toity summer camps.”
- Entertainment Weekly
“Readers...will enjoy reading about the very different, interesting twists the women's lives have taken.”
- Booklist
“Seven former camp bunkmates (and society girls) reunite with unexpected results in this witty debut novel.”
- Life & Style
“It's Chick lit for sure, but Rose gives it some extra oomph, and following the roller-coaster plot provides quite a rush...Glittery--and surprisingly gritty--fun”
- Kirkus
“This funny debut novel takes an insider's look at what happens to a tight clique of Jewish American Princesses long after the glow of adolescence has faded.”
- match.com
“A wry novel for grown-up fans of Mean Girls”
- Gotham Magazine
“An involving read...a moving collection of characters written with a compassionate and entertaining eye.”
- Edge Boston
“Compelling”
- New York Post
“Guilty pleasure.”
- New York Magazine
“Wickedly funny debut novel....Funny, smart, stylish.”
- Tucson Citizen
“The J.A.P. Chronicles is hilarious, frightening, uplifting, poignant...a book to return to again and again.”
- Omaha World-Herald

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Here are some of the magazines and newspapers that singled out The J.A.P. Chronicles as one of the hottest reads for the summer: New York magazine, Life and Style, WWD, Hamptons Magazine, The New York Times, The Daily News, The Village Voice, Gotham Magazine, The New York Post, West Side Spirit, Match.com and Newsday.
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